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I think the $149 Collector's edition is the first box w/digital download.

Just checked, issue persists after latest patch (not surprising as I'm not sure that it's on their radar).

Oooo, derpy me. I think its a typo. The other entries just list "-Digital copy of Pillars 2", my guess is someone meant to replace that with "-20 digital copies of PoE II: Deadfire" and forgot to delete the old after inserting the new.

Pet is $500, Ship is $5000

You are probably correct. Not a single spell (wizard, druid, priest) or weapon has a range over 20m, so the player would have to savage the titans ankles until he falls over.

Dunno, I didn't play, but I take it from your tone that the answer is non-exclusivity. I don't know the answer either, I haven't played every Kickstarter that's been done. I don't recall any of the PoE stuff being exclusive, so I ask because I really don't know if there's a tradition of people creating content for games that only they get that I'm not aware of. More initial thought was there would be a pet store or something where everyone's named pets are available, which is why I made the pet army joke.

Have they ever limited content to the person who created it? Seems that the appeal of pledging at a creation tier is creating something in the game for everyone.

Kinda makes you wish you could form a 'pet army' doesn't it? Not 100 pets but 100 "names", right? So probably a pool of species to choose from and slap a name on one? Right, dog, cat or pig. But 100 people naming 100 dog, cat, pig pets means 100 dog, cat, pig pets.

Kinda makes you wish you could form a 'pet army' doesn't it?

Just passed the 1st quarter of their funding goal!

My theory is that the aim is to do like BGII and make this a high(er) level campaign and not kick back to 1. Even if they could justify a level 1 restart for the PC, how'd that tie to the returning characters?

Yes, probably just an oversight. That kind of wording is something to get right on the crowdfunding page though. Don't disagree with you that it'd be better to be accurate as it "Steam Key" is misleading. I'd read the text and didn't even notice that it wasn't 'right' in the graphics.

In the text they just say "digital download". Maybe they ran out of room on the graphic?

Teaser for the Square-Enix (Eidos Montreal (Crystal Dynamics)) - Marvel game:

The disclaimer as currently written reads "YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NEITHER LOOSE TOOTH INDUSTRIES, INC. NOR FIG IS A REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER, FINANCIAL ADVISOR OR FUNDING PORTAL AND NEITHER LOOSE TOOTH INDUSTRIES, INC. NOR FIG ENGAGES IN ANY CONDUCT THAT WOULD REQUIRE SUCH REGISTRATION. NEITHER LOOSE TOOTH INDUSTRIES, INC. NOR FIG PROVIDES INVESTMENT ADVICE OR MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS." All this does is state that what Fig.com is doing isn't advising, selling or crowdfunding the purchase of securities as defined by the SEC and therefore does not have to register with the SEC (who regulate the exchange of securities - ie a certificate or other financial instrument that can be sold or traded - like stocks and bonds). SEC on Funding Portals, for example:

Well that and Feargus is one of the people behind Fig. Was there ever any real chance if PoE2 went crowdfunding that it wouldn't be on Fig?

Very interesting; that said I never thought the Death Star trench was the equator line as it is in the briefing that it runs perpendicular from the equator line and is 'north" of the dish.

Francis Ford Coppella/American Zoetrope is working with others to bring APOCALYPSE NOW to video games, allowing the player to make choices independent of the movie in RPG style with an emphasis more like survival horror than action-shooter. They've taken to Kickstarter for funding. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fringerider/apocalypse-now-the-game?ref=nav_search Team includes Francis Ford Coppola (dir Apocalypse Now) Rob Auten (lead writer Gears of War) Lawrence Liberty (executive producer, Fallout: New Vegas) Montgomery Markland (producer, Wasteland 2, Torment: Tides of Numenera, designer/producer Aliens: Crucible) with Josh Sawyer as special advisor. No clue if it'll be good, but it certainly seems to have ambition, at least.

I used to stay up and watch the Oscars for many years, but stopped a few years ago as my interest waned (also I had to get up at a reasonable time in the morning after I changed jobs). I've heard a lot of positive things about Silence but I confess, that the way those reviews were constructed, it didn't seem to generate a feeling in me that people were going to recognize it for Oscar time.

AMPAS's Oscars nominees list is out. http://oscar.go.com/nominees Biggest surprise to me? Finding Dory didn't get a nod for Best Animated Picture. Its success, it being from Pixar and it not being a bad film (even if I didn't think it the strongest of the animated films I've seen last year) all meant I thought it'd get a nod (even figured it'd get one over Zootopia which I thought was a better film).

I suspect it is a pretty big relief to not have to be president. But then again if you take enough pictures of people, they'd bound to get one where someone looked happy and someone looked unhappy, so I'm not sure its worth reading much into it beyond an initial bemusement...

Mercenaries as I understand it. There has been a bunch of outcry about it, as the chinese director of the chinese funded movie casting Matt Damon is Hollywood whitewashing or something. I don't care about any racial implications, or anything like that, I just can't get over how goofy it looks. It's like here's a bunch of warriors fighting monsters along The Great Wall of China, cool! And now here's Matt Damon... wait, what? A paycheck is a paycheck, I guess. Now part of me want Matt Damon to star in a string of seemingly random crappy films ala Nic Cage (no hate, I love Nic Cage). Edit: An an aside, I don't think you can call it whitewashing if he's playing a European mercenary. A European mercenary would be white. Now, if Matt Damon had been cast as Cao Cao in The Fall of the Han Dynasty, THAT would be whitewashing. Oerwinde is correct, though, that people complained of whitewashing ('why'd they make the character European rather than Chinese?') as well as being accused of doing the "white person saves the Chinese' trope. Apparently they were actualy trying to address issues of pandering by creating an film for the international market but with a largely Chinese based creative types. Damon was seen as a start that could help the movie play internationally and they didn't won't his role to be a glorified cameo in an otherwise Chinese film.

Learned a new word today, invigilate.

I think that's pretty much all of metropolitan Atlanta's hopes as well.

SPLIT. Thought it worked as a thriller in the vein of Cloverfield. If you go to see it I recommend not reading spoilers; it us a Shyamalan film and has its share of twists.